This is what the quest for a new normal looks like at college campuses around the upper Midwest, where administrators are adapting to a world that’s been changed by the virus. It’s leaving many colleges at a pivotal moment, deciding how to adapt to nationwide trends in education. Mark Jendrysik, a UND political scientist, said he’s still trying to find the right technique to make online class discussions as engaging and enriching as the ones that happen more naturally in a classroom. “It certainly can be done — online, with Zoom, with other forms of those type of online education tools,” Jendrysik said. But it’s harder, he said. “Part of it is, I’m older. I’ve been doing it the same way for over two decades…maybe it’s more me than the kids.”
